Intellectually people may know that Charter Schools are not public, although many are identified as such. After all, as the National Alliance for Charter Schools ascribes "Charter schools are independent public schools", ostensibly being one while essentially being the other. Perhaps, a Charter can best be described [...]
Photograph; as a designated "welcoming school," Johnson School of Excellence on the West Side got upgrades to technology. But only 34 students out of 145 from shuttered Pope Elementary are enrolled at the school, according to CPS figures | WBEZ/Linda Lutton By Linda Lutton | Originally Published [...]
By: Stephanie Simon | Originally Published at POLITICO October 6, 2013 10:50 PM EDT Ever since the Obama administration filed suit to freeze Louisiana’s school voucher program, high-ranking Republicans have pummeled the president for trapping poor kids in failing public schools. The entire House leadership sent a letter [...]
Photograph; Students look for their classrooms on the opening day of instruction at the Westchester Secondary Charter school. (Los Angeles Times / September 3, 2013) By Diane Ravitch | Originally Published at The Los Angeles Times October 1, 2013 Los Angeles has more charter schools than any [...]
By Stan Karp | Originally Published at Rethinking Schools. Fall 2013 | Illustration By Ethan Heitner Colleagues with a shared vision of teaching and learning. Freedom from central office bureaucracy. A welcoming school culture that reflected the lives of our students and families. Professional autonomy [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. Originally Published at TruthOut Andrea Gabor examines the rise of charter schools in post-Katrina New Orleans, raising an important question in the subhead: “Are New Orleans’s schools a model for the nation—or a cautionary tale?” Gabor ends the piece suggesting caution: But [...]
By Andrea Gabor Originally Published at Newsweek. September 20, 2013 Long before Sci Academy, a charter school in New Orleans, had graduated its first senior class, the school was being heaped with accolades. In September 2010, when Sci Academy was just two years old, its 200 excited [...]
On September 21, 2013 a large group of children, parents, grandparents, school staff, teachers and community members gathered to affirm Public Education as a Civil Right. Locals and supporters from miles away came together at Milwaukee High School of the Arts at 10:30 a.m. Once the crowd [...]
You may remember those heady days. It was called the Republican Convention. A large group of Republicans gathered together to celebrate education and the role it played in earlier generations. There were tales of hard-work and high expectations among the exhortations. Those were the days; we learned [...]
